Best Buy said Wednesday that Apple's just-released Apple TV will be available at all of its retail locations nationwide beginning next week.

A blog posting over at CNet News.com reveals that all 822 of the electronics retailer's stores should have the $299 wireless streaming media device in stock starting next Tuesday.

Although initial shipment are said to be limited 3,000 units -- which spread across more than 800 stores means there will be about five Apple TVs available at each store -- Best Buy will reportedly have a two-week head start on all other retailers.

"Though there aren't many other consumer electronics stores that sell Mac computers, this does give Best Buy an advantage over the numerous outlets that carry iPod," News.com reported.

Apple and Best Buy are engaged in an ongoing pilot program aimed at testing sales of Apple's Mac personal computer line in Best Buy stores. The two firms agreed to expand the pilot last September to approximately 50 locations, up from the original 7.

All Best Buy locations already carry Apple's line of iPod digital music players.

That seems like a slap in the face to CompUSA - who has an Apple mini-store and has for years. Unless CompUSA will have them at the same time and someone just felt like mentioning that Best Buy will have them.

I'll look for the line of tents outside of Best Buy later today when I drive by.

Yeah, no kidding.... I think it would be better to sell them in the check-out stands at Vons than BestBuy... at least you wouldn't have to face a "know-nothing-know-it-all" trying to tell you why you need to buy something else....

I don't really understand how this thing works to be honest. I have a wireless N Linksys router but how is TV going to detect my iTunes which is running on the wired lan side of the router? The PC doesn't have its own wireless adapter.

I don't really understand how this thing works to be honest. I have a wireless N Linksys router but how is TV going to detect my iTunes which is running on the wired lan side of the router? The PC doesn't have its own wireless adapter.

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PM me if what I say doesn't make sense... This isn't a tech thread.

Anyway, as long as it is on the same router, it should all work. But, if you have two different routers, have one act as a network bridge and the other be the router.

I don't really understand how this thing works to be honest. I have a wireless N Linksys router but how is TV going to detect my iTunes which is running on the wired lan side of the router? The PC doesn't have its own wireless adapter.

I don't really understand how this thing works to be honest. I have a wireless N Linksys router but how is ?TV going to detect my iTunes which is running on the wired lan side of the router? The PC doesn't have its own wireless adapter.

I don't really understand how this thing works to be honest. I have a wireless N Linksys router but how is TV going to detect my iTunes which is running on the wired lan side of the router? The PC doesn't have its own wireless adapter.

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The TV is 802.11 compliant. You set it up to connect to your wireless N linksys router, you set up iTunes to sync what you want, and the setup is complete. It's just like networking two computers, only simpler. Devices can talk over networks, and most easily when they are on the same network (i.e. a single router, in most cases). Ethernet and 802.11 standards both us TCP/IP standards, and work the same if both devices are wired, wireless, or any combination of the two.

The ?TV is 802.11 compliant. You set it up to connect to your wireless N linksys router, you set up iTunes to sync what you want, and the setup is complete. It's just like networking two computers, only simpler. Devices can talk over networks, and most easily when they are on the same network (i.e. a single router, in most cases). Ethernet and 802.11 standards both us TCP/IP standards, and work the same if both devices are wired, wireless, or any combination of the two.

Nice, the PC gets it DHCP from the cable company and the Linksys is leasing out 192.168.1.xx plus the wireless firewall is set at default which isn't going to let the two computers talk to one another, I don't think, except on port 80. I know I can make it work but how the heck is the average Best Buy consumer going to do it?

Nice, the PC gets it DHCP from the cable company and the Linksys is leasing out 192.168.1.xx plus the wireless firewall is set at default which isn't going to let the two computers talk to one another, I don't think, except on port 80. I know I can make it work but how the heck is the average Best Buy consumer going to do it?

By default, almost all wireless routers allow wireless devices to access the wired network with the same privileges. If you have your PC getting DHCP from the cable company, I'm not sure why you have it set up that way. It is much easier to allow the Router to get the DHCP from the cable co and then hand out local area addresses to all of the devices on your network. This is how most everyone (both cable and DSL customers) are set up. And I'm not just assuming that, I work tech support for Dell (I hate being on the dark side, but Apple doesn't have a call center here and I need to pay for school) and I've never had someone going through a router who's PC was getting the IP address from the ISP.

By default, almost all wireless routers allow wireless devices to access the wired network with the same privileges. If you have your PC getting DHCP from the cable company, I'm not sure why you have it set up that way. It is much easier to allow the Router to get the DHCP from the cable co and then hand out local area addresses to all of the devices on your network. This is how most everyone (both cable and DSL customers) are set up. And I'm not just assuming that, I work tech support for Dell (I hate being on the dark side, but Apple doesn't have a call center here and I need to pay for school) and I've never had someone going through a router who's PC was getting the IP address from the ISP.

I guess that's why they call it a wireless router with a 4 port switch. Otherwise nothing would prevent drive-by hacking.

Yeah, I wish I could tell anyone with home theater equipment that you get absolutely NO added benefit by paying more for a digital cable. A $20 HDMI cable will transfer just as good of a signal as a $100 one. A $5 RCA cable will transfer digital audio just as well as a $50 one. Assuming you take care of it, a cheap optical cable will transfer digital audio just as well as an expensive one.

Yeah, I wish I could tell anyone with home theater equipment that you get absolutely NO added benefit by paying more for a digital cable. A $20 HDMI cable will transfer just as good of a signal as a $100 one. A $5 RCA cable will transfer digital audio just as well as a $50 one. Assuming you take care of it, a cheap optical cable will transfer digital audio just as well as an expensive one.

That seems like a slap in the face to CompUSA - who has an Apple mini-store and has for years. Unless CompUSA will have them at the same time and someone just felt like mentioning that Best Buy will have them.

Yeah, I wish I could tell anyone with home theater equipment that you get absolutely NO added benefit by paying more for a digital cable. A $20 HDMI cable will transfer just as good of a signal as a $100 one. A $5 RCA cable will transfer digital audio just as well as a $50 one. Assuming you take care of it, a cheap optical cable will transfer digital audio just as well as an expensive one.

Best Buy's digital cable prices are beyond stupid, but apparently the reasoning is that if you just dropped three grand on a plasma you won't blink at being told you have to pay $100 for cable "if you want to get the best out of it".

On the other hand, it means I can resell stuff to my clients for less than half of what BB charges and still have a pretty good markup, while saving them a ton over what they expected to pay. Win-win!

They spoke of the sayings and doings of their commander, the grand duke, and told stories of his kindness and irascibility.

Best Buy's digital cable prices are beyond stupid, but apparently the reasoning is that if you just dropped three grand on a plasma you won't blink at being told you have to pay $100 for cable "if you want to get the best out of it".

On the other hand, it means I can resell stuff to my clients for less than half of what BB charges and still have a pretty good markup, while saving them a ton over what they expected to pay. Win-win!

Yeah, I wish I could tell anyone with home theater equipment that you get absolutely NO added benefit by paying more for a digital cable. A $20 HDMI cable will transfer just as good of a signal as a $100 one. A $5 RCA cable will transfer digital audio just as well as a $50 one. Assuming you take care of it, a cheap optical cable will transfer digital audio just as well as an expensive one.

Oh, you are so full of crap! The next thing you'll be telling me is that my gold-plated $30 USB cables are just as good as a $3 cable from NewEgg! And we know that's not the case! The gold-plated one makes sure that my connectiion to the printer is as pure and complete as possible, meaning my printouts come out crisper and clearer then the rest of you (its like I get 610 dpi, instead of 600dpi!)

Oh, you are so full of crap! The next thing you'll be telling me is that my gold-plated $30 USB cables are just as good as a $3 cable from NewEgg! And we know that's not the case! The gold-plated one makes sure that my connectiion to the printer is as pure and complete as possible, meaning my printouts come out crisper and clearer then the rest of you (its like I get 610 dpi, instead of 600dpi!)

At least that's what the guy at Best Buy told me...

Notwithstanding the irony, aren't all USB-connectors gold plated? I guess there's a few nickel connectors or something, but they seem. to be the exception

Uh, mark-up over my costs for materials I put in the time to acquire and have the expertise to carefully evaluate and choose is neither "evil" or "taking advantage of people's ignorance", it's called "doing business".

My clients don't really expect me to point them to a web page and say, "there you go, that's your best deal, go ahead and get that." They pay me to take care of all that.

They spoke of the sayings and doings of their commander, the grand duke, and told stories of his kindness and irascibility.